At head of title: Lancelot Hogben

"Selected references" at end of each part except part IV

"Answers to examples (edited by Mr. Richard Palmer)": p. 1077-1082

The Conquest of Time Reckoning and Space Measurement. Pole Star and Pyramid: The Coming of the Calendar -- Pompey's Pillar: The Science of Seafaring -- Spectacles and Satellites: The Trail of the Telescope -- Children of the Sun: The Decline of Mere Logic -- Wheel, Weight, and Watchspring: The Laws of Motion -- The Sailor's World View: The Wave Metaphor of Modern Science -- The Conquest of Substitutes. The Third State of Matter: The Freeborn Miner -- The Rebirth of Materialism: The Exhaustion of the Neolithic Economy -- The Atoms of Democritus: Intimations of the Age of Plenty -- The Last Resting Place of Spirits: A Planned Economy of Carbon Compounds

The Conquest of Power. A Century of Inventions: The Decline of Wind and Water -- The Dark Satanic Mills: The Superfluity of Mere Toil -- The South Pointing Instrument and the Lightning Conductor -- Costing the Current -- The Waves That Rule Britannia -- The Conquest of Hunger and Disease. When Life is Cheap -- Replenishing the Earth -- The Microbe Hunters -- The Laws of Increasing Returns -- The Ascent of Man -- A Planned Ecology of Human Life -- The Conquest of Behavior. Animal Magnetism: The Telegraphy of the Body -- Nature and Nurture: Superstitions of Our Own Times -- The New Social Contract: Answers to Examples

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